> > Cloud is cool, but only for corporates, it's not economicaly accesible yet. > > > > Send from my Samsung Galaxy Note II > > Oh the irony! Do you know why services like Skype or now Spotify are moving to the cloud? Because mobile phones make lousy super-nodes, what with battery depletion and all that. And then you are sending your complaint from a Samsung Galaxy... > Yeah, batteries and inconsistent connections are a problem for P2P networks... If internet is moving to mobile and this ones are not true P2P peers but instead they get the resources directly from a server, then it makes sense to remove the P2P platform at all and use a plain-old client-server architecture (i.e. "The Cloud"), but it still makes sense for desktop and permanent connections devices, or for one-to-one connections so server only use bandwidth for signaling (WebRTC), or for secure, untrusted connections...
It's true that a mobile phone is a bad P2P router both for battery and bandwidth resources. The first one will be difficult to fix, but second one will get an acceptable situation probably in 5 or 10 years. As I told you, I believe P2P will see a renaissance.
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